New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ sees machine gun-toting Headless Horseman

Tuesday, Fox released a trailer for a modern-day version of Sleepy Hollow. One that sees time-displaced, badass revolutionary war soldier Icabod Crane going toe-to-toe with an assault rifle-clad Headless Horseman — revealed to be one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the bible — in modern New York.

If you want to see a Washington Irving character make jokes about Starbucks, the trailer is below:

The press release that goes along with the video says that rather than a gawky nerd, this Icabod Crane is a time travelling soldier under direct orders from George Washington to stop the Horseman.

From co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the “Star Trek” and “Transformers” franchises, “Fringe”) comes the adventure thriller SLEEPY HOLLOW. In this modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic, ICHABOD CRANE (Tom Mison, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to find that the world is on the brink of destruction and that he is humanity’s last hope, forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer (Nicole Beharie, “Shame,” “American Violet”) to unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.